Marcos Manhães Marins
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Manhães Marins, graduated by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro -
UFRJ in 1979, works for Líder Cine Laboratórios as well as for Globo TV
Network (Rio de Janeiro and London's stations). He attends Cinema
courses at British Film Institute and at the University of London in
1984 with masters Bruce Carson MA and
'Robert Murphy' MA. Back to Brazil, he studies with film maker
Pedro Camargo (Amor e Traição, A Pele do
Bicho) in a course of "Actors for Filming". He is elected
member-director of Association of Brazilian Documentarists (ABD) and of
Corcina - a cooperative of independent film makers. He writes and
directs
Sociedade, Sociedade (1980),
(with professional actors
Antônio de Bônis and
Dione Miranda - fiction-Agedor),
João e a Sinuca Brasileira (1982)
(documentary-Agedor),
Alta Rotação (1987) (with
Othon Bastos - main actor of "Deus e o Diabo
na Terra do Sol" and Cássia Kis, having as
director of photography Walter Carvalho-
fiction-Fibra Cine Video), "Usem a Interação Universidade Empresa"
(documentary-Fibra Cine Video) and directs many videos for UFRJ, MPM
Advertizing Co. and Centro Brasileiro dos Direitos da Criança e do
Adolescente (A children rights' defense center). He directs the fiction
film
Chateaubriand - Cabeça de Paraíba (2000)
in 2000. By the end of this year he is one of the 29 founders of CBC -
Congress of Brazilian Cinema, an entity to unite 54 professionals and
enterprises' associations. He represents the forum CinemaBrasil with more than 2000 members in permanent
debates. In 2006, he exhibits his movie
Memórias da Chibata (2006)
which gives him several awards. At the end of 2007, he makes the
documentary Chateaubriand - The father of Brazilian Television, 9
exclusive interviews with people who lived with the Brazilian "Citizen
Kane", not exhibited yet. In 2008 is carrying on his project Chibata -
the life of João Cândido, about the leader of Chibata Rebellion in
Brazilian Old Navy against the use of the whip over sailors 22 years
after the end of slavery. He is also now Counsellor of CBC.